Anthropology

This video, featuring an all Native American cast and filmed in the sacred Black Hills of
South Dakota, dramatizes the Trickster storytelling tradition, delving into the humor and
visual language of this central Native American cultural icon.

Portrays daily life in a mountaintop slum in Rio de Janeiro, featuring interviews with
residents who discuss police harassment, the lack of educational and employment
opportunities, problems of sanitation, violence, drugs and alcohol in the community, and
social and racial discrimination.

Recounts the larger-than-life but true story of Arno P. Calderari--professional adventurer,
jungle explorer, deep sea diver, treasure hunter and wildlife filmmaker-interweaving
Arno's reminiscences with rare film footage of his many adventures.

This docudrama examines the Filipino experience at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair,
focusing on the filmmaker's grandfather, an Igorot warrior, one of the 1,100 tribal natives
displayed as anthropological "specimens" in the notorious Philippine Village exhibit.

Profiles the life and work of Martin Chambi (1891-1973), a full-blooded Indian, who ran
his own photographic studio in Cuzco, Peru's ancient Inca capital, where he
photographed many of Peru's wealthy European families.

This music and dance spectacular, sung and danced by members of the award-winning
Beija Flor Samba School and photographed during the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro,
dramatizes the legend of genesis according to Yoruba mythology.

Takes us to the heart of the Andes to capture the atmosphere of the annual music
festivals, showing ceremonies of the Aymara Indians who dress as devils, bears and
sacred spirits that come to life at carnival time.

Set against a background of farming, saw-milling and moonshining activities in rural
Kentucky during the Depression, this short film dramatizes the use of violence as a
socially accepted form of "folk justice."

Celebrates the traditional art of storytelling through profiles of three storytellers--Judith
Black, whose stories explore the Jewish immigrant experience; Michael Cotter, a
Minnesota farmer whose stories focus on the extraordinary qualities of ordinary people;
and Rex Ellis, whose stories deal with the historical period of enslavement of Afro-
Americans.

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